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HARNESS BUCKLE AND LOOP.

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No. 249,647. Patented Nov. 15,1881.

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llNiTnD STATES PATENT @einen MATTHEW lV. LYNCH, OF MADISON, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR OF ONEHALF TO DEXTER CURTIS, OF SAME PLACE. l

HARNESS BUCKLEt AND LOOP.

SPECIFICATION forming' part of Letters Patent No. 249,647, dated November 15, 1881.

Application iiled June l1, 1881.

.To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MATTHEW W. LYNCH, of Madison, Dane county, Wisconsin, have invented a new and Improved Harness Buckle 5 and Loop, and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in whichl Figure l is a perspective view of the buckle and loop detached from the strap. Fig. 2 is a side view; Fig. 3, a sectional view, and Fig.4 a view of a modification.

Similar letters of reference in the several 15 figures denote the same parts.

This invention relates to an improved combined harness buckle and loop constructed as I will now proceed to describe.

In the drawings, A represents the buckle, zo B the strap, and C the loop. The form of the loop is best shown in Fig. 1. It is made of cast or wroughtrnetal, preferably iron, and has a broad iiat cross-bar, c, at its top, extending from side to side, two other cross bars, c c2, z5 also extending from side to side and arranged in substantially the same plane, and a fourth cross-bar, c3, forming the end of the long arm of the loop. The upper faces of all the bars c cZ c3 are preferably made flat, and bars c 02 3o each have a central perforation, p, as shown.

In applying the buckle and loop to the strap the end of the strap is passed through the buckle and folded back on the strap and secured by a rivet, b, as shown in Fig. 3, a per- 3 5 foration having first been providedin the strap, atitsbend,for the accommodation of thetongue of the buckle. The metal loop is then slipped onto the strap, with its broad top bar, c, outermost, until the barczis quite close to the buckle.

(Model.)

Perforatious are then made in the overlapped 4o parts of the strap, opposite the central perforations, p p, in the bars c c2, after which the shanks of the headed rivets b b are inserted through both sets ot' perforations and headed or upset against the bars c c2, thus securely 45 fastening the parts together. The free end of the strap is after this passed back through between the cross-bars c c3; thence through the loop of the buckle, where it is secured by the tongue, and finally hack again under the Hat 45o top loop, c, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3.

It will be observed that the connection of both buckle and loop is very easily and quickly made by means of the rivets, and is much stronger and more durable than if stitching 55 were resorted to.

In Fig. t I have shown a modiication of the invention,in which the cross-bars c c2, instead of being perforated for the passage of rivets, are provided with rivetstuds s s, formed upon 6o or permanently attached to said'cross-bars, and serving, in connection with the burrs s s', to secure the loop to the strap.

My invention is designed to be applied to the hannes-fastening strap of' a harness and else- 65 where where applicable.

l claim as my invention- The combination of the strap B, the buckle A, the metal loop C, havingthe broad-top crossbar c, the perforated cross-bars c c2, arranged 7o in substantially the saine plane, and the crossbar c3, with the securing-rivets, all said parts being arranged and adapted to operate su bstantia-lly as described.

MATTHEW W. LYNCH.

Vitnesses:

W. A. P. MORRIS, HENRY Kiessnrnofr. 

